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Art Subject: Nature
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$400 Sale Price
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Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, early 20th century watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 19.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Midnight Angus Drawing #3 (Midwest, Cattle, Mid-Century, Prairie, Blue, 25% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Theodore Waddell
Midnight Angus Drawing #3 (Midwest, Cattle, Mid-Century, Prairie, Blue)
Oil on Paper
Year: 1990
Sheet Size: 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Mat Size: 33.5 x 43.5 in...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Countryside - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1993
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1993 by Armin Guther.
The artwork is hand-signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the lower-left.
In excellent condition...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Boats at the Dock
By Stephen Seymour Thomas
Located in Dallas, TX
gouache with pen and ink
signed "Seymour Thomas" at lower right
Category
20th Century Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Fishing Village, Scotland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Fishing Village, Scotland" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'The Garden, Mandelieu-la-Napoule', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'L'escalier du Jardin (Mandelie '.
From 1947,...
Category
1980s Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provencal Plane Trees in Winter
Located in London, GB
'Provencal Plane Trees in Winter', gouache on art paper, by Max Escalon de Fonton (1946). The plane trees found in Provence in the South of France are a hybrid of the Asian and Ameri...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$602 Sale Price
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Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
29,3 x 22.5 cm
In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm
titled on t...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
TOGETHER 3 - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing, Dog, People
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple white wood frames behind glass. At the right site there is a monogram with date. The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 by Calo Carratalá - Pencil, Senegal, trees, river
Located in Paris, FR
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 is a unique oil pencil on cardboard, glued on wooden frame drawing by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 80 × 139 × 4 cm (31.5 × 54.7 × 1....
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood Panel, Cardboard, Pencil
Vintage Coastal Figurative Landscape -- Walk on the Beach Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful vintage watercolor of a coastal landscape with two figures walking along the beach by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson i...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$396 Sale Price
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"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
6th Avenue Elevated
19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Watercolor on paper
Signed an...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Fields of Pink" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting of Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Fields of Pink" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a landscape with large trees and pink flowers.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based artis...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Where the River Runs" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Where the River Runs" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a dead tree next to a creek on a stormy day.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based ar...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Home VI - Family With A Dog - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple wooden black frames behind glass.
The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
“Ski Style 1960”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,400 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Cloudy Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Alan Halliday: "Villa Oasis", Hand-painted frame, 2019
Located in Richmond, GB
The Villa Oasis is the property in Marrakech that was owned by the late couturier Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé. It is attached to the Jardin Majorelle (developed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Summer Greens" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Melody of the River" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a landscape on a grey and cloudy day.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based artist cel...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Coastal Scene)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled (Coastal Scene)" c.1990, is a watercolor on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 10 x 28 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 35.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some minor rubs and scratches.
About the artist:
Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85).
She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections.
Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines.
STUDIES:
Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA
Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73
Mt. Allison University, 69-72
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews.
Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999.
Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue)
Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991
New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987.
Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988
Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
"A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog
"Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs
"Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Colorful Lake Reflections, Large-Scale Pastel Landscape with Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant large-scale pastel landscape of colorful reflections rippling on a calm lake with three small ducks and a boat by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$1,080 Sale Price
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Landscape - Marker and Watercolor by E. Pavarino - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in China ink and watercolor on paper, realized by Ermanno Pavarino in 1969.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Hand-signed and d...
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker
"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,400 Sale Price
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Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$1,754 Sale Price
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In Isolation Series VII
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This architectural wall-hanging artwork titled "In Isolation Series VII" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of collage, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood. This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Autumn Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 20 x 12.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Landscape - Drawing by Louttre Bissière - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing in watercolor realized in 1971 by Louttre Bissière.
Hand signed lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th century Italian figurative landscape of a traditional wheat field harvest scene, by S. Frosini (Italian, 20th Century). This figurative landscape in gouache depicts in gre...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
"Coastal Scene with Figures"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "California Coastal Scene with Figures" c.1970 in a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Wayne Carl Lacom, born 1922. It is signed at he lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 14.25 x 21.5 inches, framed is 20.35 x 28.75 inches. It is custom framed in original wooden silver brown frame. It is in very good condition.
About the artist:
Wayne La Com...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Untitled 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
"Untitled 4, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 4" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a cow in a mountainous landscape.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$225 Sale Price
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Winter Night in Canmore, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and sky
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Les Indestinés, Charcoal, Original Black & White Drawing, Wave, Seascape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Charcoal and Graphite on Archival Watercolour paper 300Gsm.
Artist : Fabien Granet
Subject : Les Indestinés (series ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mountains - Original Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Mountains is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1944.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservatio...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor
"The Remote", Pigments Watercolor Acrylic Paper Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "The remote", this artwork created by Frank Girard, utilizes pigments, Chinese ink, watercolors, acrylics, and colored pencils on 400g/m2 neutral white paper. It remains unfra...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Pigment
$829 Sale Price
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English School, 19th Century, Victorian rustic scene, Thatched cottage
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene from the Victorian period with figures chatting outside a thatched cottage
English School, mid 19th Century
Figures conversing by a cottage and stream
Wat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$239 Sale Price
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Cottages in Devon
By Samuel Prout
Located in Middletown, NY
An early Devonshire landscape, ex-collection West Collection of British Watercolors & the Fine Art Society, London.
Circa 1800
Ink and brown wash on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (...
Category
Early 1800s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Graphite
French 19th century Pen and Ink River landscape with boat from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century River landscape with boat sketch, in pen and ink and sepia color.
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris wh...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971) - Framed Gouache, Views of Dartmouth
Located in Corsham, GB
This captivating gouache painting by British artist Reginald Daniel Sherrin (1891-1971), depicts a coastal view at the mouth of the river Dart with sail...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Landscape - Drawing by Paul Huet - 19th Century
By Paul Huet
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Pencil Drawing realized by Paul Huet.
Good condition included a grey cardboard passpartout (32.5x50 cm).
Stamp signed on the lower right corner.
Paul Huet (3 October 1803 – 8 January 1869) was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He studied under Gros and Guerin. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington in the studio of Gros, where he studied irregularly from 1819 to 1822. Bonington's example influenced Huet to reject neoclassicism and instead paint landscapes based on close observation of nature. The British landscape paintings exhibited in the Salon of 1824 were a revelation to Huet, who said of Constable's work: "It was the first time perhaps that one felt the freshness, that one saw a luxuriant, verdant nature, without blackness, crudity or mannerism."[4] Huet's subsequent work combined emulation of the English style with inspiration derived from Dutch and Flemish old masters such as Rubens, Jacob van Ruisdael...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original China Ink and Watercolour realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900).
Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout ...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Birch Mystery, trees, female figure, neutral tones, collage on archival paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage
Paper charcoal collage
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and again, later, alone in the stu...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Pastel on paper
Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in.
Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Beaver Pond, Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Beaver Pond near Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on Paper
19 x 24 inches
21 x 26 inches framed
Frank...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,327 Sale Price
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Manner of Frederick Widgery (1861–1942) - 20thC Gouache, Overcast Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine coastal landscape in gouache in the manner of Frederick John Widgery (1861–1942). The painting is unsigned and presented in a gilt frame ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$361 Sale Price
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Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a fisherman,
Signed lower right
Pencil on paper
27.8 x 44 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
We find in this drawing everything that makes...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$773 Sale Price
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View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1974.
Hand signed lower right. Date on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
In the Wood - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1968.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Everyday Life in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed and located in the center.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, d...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
L'Opéra in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1975/77.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, die...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Chrysler Building" Leon Dolice, New York City Street Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Chrysler Building
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
19 x 12 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the yo...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Estes Park Colorado American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Painting, WPA 1930s
By James Russell Sherman
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s watercolor and ink painting of Estes Park, Colorado, by American artist James Russell Sherman (1906-1989). This captivating work features a detailed view of storefronts...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Oil, Gouache
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